Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-25

which can be done by irrigation-and the
value of the canal and bitches can be ap-
pIoximated.
What has caused the great advance in
value of lands in Los Angeles, Kern Tu-
lare, Fresno, MERGED and Stanislaus coun-
ties? and the answer is irrigation and en-
terprise.
Have the foregoing done, and then have
an Arbor Day in each year, and plant trees
OF suitable character upon both sides of all
the roads and lanes through this portion of
the county; round up and gravel the CEN
tiers of the roads nail up and whitewash
the board fences along the roads; paint the
barns and houses white; plant trees around
the houses, and then the boom in the
country will commence. Buyers will come
in and values will increase to double and
more than the present values. Let the
Changers through the county unite. and
with concert of action the foregoing is
easily done, and at no very great expense
either. So much for the country.
Then let our Board of Trade organize a
company-or else the city do it-and pur-
chase some one of the many bitches head
ing in the mountains. and bring to the city
pure and fresh water in pipes, and with
sufficient pressure to run the machinery
of our planning mills, furniture factory.
electric light machinery. printing presses,
and other machinery that may be needed
so that manufactures may be encouraged
to start. Fix the streets, sidewalks and
awnings; paint the buildings dispose of
the sewage; do away with the poison
breeding drainage canal, and then the
boom will commence in the CITY. New
blood and enterprise will come. and prop
erty will increase i'll value, and we ali will
be happy. ED. r. HAMILTON.
PRACTICAL LETTER FROM I. N HoAG.
EDS. RECORD UNION: / have been very
much interested in the discussion that has
been going on lately in your columns on
the subject of local and suburban improve
| ments, as a means of securing additional
population and greater business ACTIVITY
and advancement of real estate values
Many truthful and valuable statements
and suggestions have been called out. and
1t has occurred to me that the next need
full thing is for those who see the case so
| clearly to so light to work and put these
suggestions into practice.
1t takes wonderful sight of theory to
get ones neighbors to act, but very little
practice is wonderfully effective. Good
theory is very cheap and of but little value
Generals who plan and theoriZe but
never go into battles never win them.
But | will not follow this strain of
thought any farther, bat will say what |
first set out TO say, viz the public-spirited
citizen who asked that his name should
not be given to the public-but who wrote
out his views in the following words, "Of
all that has been said of late on this sub-
ject of the boom, the proposition of water
ditch from the American river over IL e
plains between the American and the
Costumes rivers. the foothills and the Sac
| ramento river is of the greatest import
ance, has struck the key note OF the stu
alton in the Sacramento valley.
To show how true this statement is will
| call attention to some facts (which have
occurred in the San Bernardino valley
within the past ten months.
What is called the mesa lands in this
valley are like the plains lands between
the American and Costumes rivers--iust
fairly good grain or hay lands-some sea
sons producing fair crops, but on the whole
but little more than paying expenses OF
cultivation and interest on $50 or $40 per
acre.
| Last August l secured the refusal of 44O
acres OF this class of land, at $50 an acre.
l made arrangements to have water from
| the Bear valley reservoir brought onto the
land at the rate of one inch of water to
every seven acres, delivered from cement
\ PaPNS Oii tiAS punt VI edcn lot OIL
| ten acres. This raised the cost value of the
land, with water piped onto it with a small
| margin for profit, to $50 per acre On con-
dition that the land and water were thus 10
| be brought together in time for planting
| the present season, | negotiated! the sale oi
the land at $50 per acre to a Chicago
colony.
The land was at once cut I'D into lots.
with streets and avenues, and the work OF
putting the water on it put into the hands
of competent persons. A corporation was
| formed so that each acre of land should
have one share of stock in water COM
pany, and each owner of q share of this
stock should have one vote in the manage
| ment OF the company, the election of officers,
etc. There were forty members of the col
ony and forty separate deeds were given to
as many lots into which the whole section
was divided. Possession was given in De-
| tober and from $50 to 800 of the 44O acres
Will be put into orange this year-the
| planting has just commenced
Lots IN this colony have been selling ali
| the way from $3.50 three months agc) to
$500 lat the present time) per acre The
| best lots cannot be bought for $500 per
acre. Your readers may draw their own
| conclusions as to whether it will paw to
| put the suggestions Of the nameless citizen
! into practice. | would not have anv OF
your readers infer that it is necessary that
those who undertake similar schemes OF
| improvement should do so out of pure
patriotic motives, or solely for the public
good. In the advancement of real estate
over a large section of country there is now
and then chance for hive man to make
little money on his own account. Yours
| truly,
/. n. HoAG.
Lugonia, San Bernardino county. May 81
| 1887.
| VIEWS OF J. r. WATSON
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN Answering youl
questions, l would say in few words thai
the methods suggested in the communities
ton of Mr.. Albert Gallatin meet with nv
approval, and are the same, indeed. that he
and | have often talked over together as
means that should be adopted to advance
the importance and prosperity of Sacra.
mento. But | would emphasize in partic.
uiar the very great importance of having
in our city really first-clas5 hotel, while j
do not wish to be understood to say ON
hotels, such as they are, are not kept first.
| class; but we have not in our midst what
we all know to be a modern hotel, such as
may be found in Denver, Galveston, Hons.
ton, Atlanta and many yet smaller cities
and towns in the West ana South. notably
Jacksonville and st. Augustine in Florida
have frequently heard it remarked by
| travellers: Yes, | would like to remain il
Sacramento with my family week or two
but your hotels are inferior 10 what We
have been accustomed TO, and we found il